Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 643, John B Field, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Field, John B.
S. 643
Carded.
CONTENTS

17.006 New Jersey
John B. Field
Piscataway in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Webster of the _____ commanded by _____ in the New Jersey line for 2 years $80.-
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of July 1833 and paid to J. F. Randolph New Brunswick New Jersey
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept " " 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Vincent Luce Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 111

State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss:
On this fourteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior court of common Pleas in & for the county of Middlesex & State of New Jersey in open court being a court of record & now sitting John B. Field was a resident in the Township of Piscataway in the county & State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law & being examined and interrogated according to the instructions from the War Department doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832. - V.B. - That he was born in the Township of Piscataway county & State aforesaid on the 2 nd day of April 1756 & is now in his 77 th year. Has a record of his age copied from the original kept in his father's bible which is now in possession of his brother. Lived in Middlesex county at the commencement of the revolutionary war & when he entered the service of the United States & has lived there ever since - entered the service of the United States in winter of 1775-6 in a company commanded by Capt. John Webster, as a volunteer, and marched to New York & thence to Long Island under Col. Hecker to disarm the Tories. Was gone between three & four weeks - The next form of military duty he performed was at Paulus

2nd Hl. Field Reg't N.J. Inf'ty
Hook and made capt. Moses Martin wh The British took New York & was out there for one month. The regiment to which he belonged was divided into two detachments which were called out alternately every month till the close of the war. He always served his regular term never missing any. He served during the war under the fol- lowing officers, Captains Webster, Martin, Wm Manning Robert Rop, Luperance, Si- mon Adams, Thompson, Stites, Jacob Se- bring & capt. Jeremiah Tennyson. Major Wm Egan - Colonels Heards, Webster, Cross Heady - There were some other officers whom he served but cant now recollect their names. He served at Parker's Hook Elizabethtown, Woodbridge Morristown, Springfield, Amboy, Haver- -sack Monmouth, Millstone - For the greater part of the time at Woodbridge - The country through which he march- ed were between the places above men- tioned & in their vicinity all in the State of New Jersey - Never served as a sub- stitute - Was in a great many skirm- ishes with the enemy but in no general engagement - Was at Monmouth at the time of the battle of that place but not in the engagement - Had a brother killed in that battle - Was one of the party that followed Col. Simcoe on his expedition to Raritan & Millstone from Perth Amboy - Was the first to fire on the British party & was present when Sim- coe was taken prisoner - Cannot detail with greater particularity his services as a soldier, was out more than two

years in the whole as a volunteer mi- litiarian during the war. Has no writ- ten discharge from the service nor any documentary evidence of his service but is well known to Captain Jer- emiah Jen Eyck, Jeremiah B. Field, him- self and Field, & Joseph Garrison all of whom are still living at different times during the war served with this declar- ant & can testify to his service as a sol- dier of the revolution & is also well known to the Rev R. H. Rodgers & Wm B.
Manning who can testify to his char- acter for veracity & their belief of his service as a revolutionary soldier. And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity ex- cept the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed in open court this day 2 years ago. A. Woodhull Judge
John B. Field
State of New Jersey Middlesex County } We Jeremiah Jen Eyck Jeremiah B. Field and Joseph Garrison all of the Township of Piscataway County of Mid- dlesex & State of New Jersey do hereby certify that we are respectively well acquainted with John B. Field who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That he was to our certain knowledge a soldier in

The war of the revolution - That each of us has at different times served with him in the militia companies to which he belonged & that we entertain no doubt but that he served as a soldier more than two years in the whole & that we believe him to be of the age he represents himself to be in his said application - That he is a man of veracity & respectability & his statement is entitled to credit - And the said Jeremiah B. Field certifies that he is brother to said John B. Field & knows him to be of the age of 78 years or thereabouts & that he served as a soldier of the revolution more than two years -  Sworn & subscribed in open court this 21 st day of May 2 years ago -  Jeremiah B. Field his Joseph B. Field mark  N. Moorem Lucy
State of New Jersey Middlesex county ss. We R. H. Rodgers a clergyman residing in the county of Somerset N. Jersey & in the neighbourhood of the above applicant & Wm. Manning residing in the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John B. Field who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, That we believe him to be of the age of seventy six years or thereabouts and that he is respected & believed to be in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion -  Sworn & subscribed  Randolph Rodgers

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MCS/eel aw
May 14, 1929
Mrs. William R. Conover Star Route Freehold, New Jersey
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.643 , it appears that John B. Field was born, April 2, 1756, in Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
While a resident of that county, he enlisted in the winter of 1775 and 1776, and served at various times until the close of the Revolution, amounting to more than two years in all, as a private with the New Jersey Troops under Captains John Webster, Moses Martin, William Manning, Robert Ross, Lupardus, Simon Addis, Thompson Stelle, Jacob Sebring, Jeremiah Ten Eyck, and Hugh Dunn, Colonels Duychinck, Heard, Webster, Crow and Heady.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Piscataway Township, New Jersey.
There are no data on file relative to wife and children.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Sept 24. 1900 Mrs. L. Munt Bonne Brook N.J.
1929 May 14 hist. to Mrs Wm. R. Conover. See letter in case of Isaac Brokaw S. 602. Ties.
Rev Alfar
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File No. 643 John B. Field Rev. N. J. L...
Act: June 7. 1882.
Index: — Vol. a , Page 124
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hew
Bound Brook N.J.
Aug 8 th 1900
Pension Bureau. Washington. D.C.
Please send me the record of John B. Field of Bound Brook N.J., born in April 1756 & who was a minute man in the Revolutionary war & oblige Very respectfully Mrs Wm L. Heart.

John B. Field
Admitted Private 2 years $80-
James P. Randolph Present.

State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Middlesex John B. Field who being duly sworn deposes & saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise time and length of his service but according to the best of his re- collection he served not less than the last of periods mentioned below, and in the following grades. He served as a private as follows. He was called out in the winter of 1775 & 1776 in a company commanded by Captain John Webster & marched to New York & thence to Long Island under Col. Howard & was gone & served not less than one month. In August of the year 1776 he was again called out & served one month under Capt. Moses Martin & Col. Duyckinck, at Sandy Hook The enemy were then in N. York Bay and fired briskly upon them & recollects a brave New England officer belonging to another regiment of the American troops then at the same time but does not recollect his name. In November of the same year he was called out & served one month under Capt. Thomas Stelle at Woodbridge, adjacent to Staten Island the enemy were on the Island at that time. In June 1777 he was called out & served one month under Captain Schuyler at Elizabeth town. In August of the same year he was called out & served between that time & the following spring five months that is to say under Capt. Stelle one month, under Capt. Ross one month & under Capt. Manning three months they were stationed at Woodbridge, and engaged in guarding the lines detaching the troops watching

the plundering parties of the enemy & in scouting parties, during the time they were also at Andray Elizabeth Town & Bugus. - In June 1778 he was again ordered out & served one month during which he was marched to Monmouth under Capt Schring & Col Webster & altho not engaged in the battle was in that vicinity in scouting parties & harassing the enemy, at this place his brother Michael was killed being cut to pieces by the light horsemen of the enemy. In August of the same year he was ordered out & served one month under Capt Steele at Woodbridge and from that time he continued to serve his regular ninety day until the following year at the Woodbridge Station that is to say as well as he can recollect one month under Capt Roff, two tours of one month each under Capt Lapsbury, two months under Capt Manning and one month under Capt Steele, was engaged in guarding the lines, scouting parties and protecting the property of the citizens - well recollects during this time of marching through the snow being on guard one night with one Major Bishop all night the enemy lying on the opposite shore & within hearing distance. In the summer of 1779 he was ordered out & served two months under Capt Van Eyck & employed in similar service, In the summer of 1780 he was ordered out & served one month under Capt Schring during which time he marched towards Springfield he did not reach the battle but encountered the enemy near Elizabeth Town & was engaged in a severe skirmish & recollects firing away all his

ammunition & that his shoulder in consequence of his firing was all black the next day. He also served as well as he can recollect in the same year one month under Capt Schuyler, one month under Capt Dunn & two months under Capt Manning all at the Woodbridge Station He also served one month under Capt Addis he is not certain in what year but thinks it was in the year 1779. he recollects it was in the time of morning grass. They were ordered to the white plains but on their arrival at Morris Town their orders were countermanded and they halted & there he served out his month He believes he served other times & was called out frequently on alarms not specified in the declaration & which he cannot now specify His services were for the most part along the shore & line of the state watching the enemy & their station was for the most part at Woodbridge for these services he claims a pension Given & subscribed this twenty fifth day of Jan 1833 before me -
John P. Field
Peter D. Ransom Justice of the peace

I Nicholas Booraeu Clerk of the inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex New Jersey do certify that Peter P. Bunyon is one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and that the signature to the written supplemental declaration purporting to be his signature is his own proper hand writing. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this twenty six day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. N Booraeu Clerk
Ms. B. File -

John H. Field
Ames Franklin New Brunswick, N.J.

State of New Jersey } John B. Field Middlesex County } Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex who being duly sworn deposes and states that by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the length of his service but to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below in the following grade as a private. He was called into service in the winter of 1775 & 1776 in a company commanded by Captain John Webster I marched to New York then to Long Island under Col. Heald & was gone not less than one month. The next town he was drafted & ordered out served one month in August under Capt. Moses Martin & Col. Deutchman. The enemy were then in York Bay I fired briefly upon them & recollects a brave New England Officer but not his name. In November of the same year he was ordered out served one month under Capt. Thompson Stiles - the enemy were on the Island & was out all the ensuing winter as a volunteer the enemy lying in Brunswick. In June 1777 he was ordered out served one month under Captain Seymour at Elizabeth Town & then was ordered out the August of the same year served 5 months until the spring of 1778 I was stationed at Wood- bridge among Elizabeth town & Bayonne under Captains Stiles, Dyer & Mannering Major Edgar & Col. Cross Webster engaged in guarding the lines detecting the Tories watching the plundering parties of the enemy in scouting parties. In June 1778 was again ordered out served one month

1400 During which he was marched to Mount under Captain Gehring & Col. Webster & altho' not engaged in the battle was in that vicinity in frontier parties & scouting. The enemy drove the majority of the men from his section of the State & returned to Mount  Woodbridge . During which time he had a brother shot by name Michael — In August 1778 he was ordered out served one month & continued every other month serving two months during which latter period he served not less than 6 months under Captains Lufkin Heller Rob Manning & Col. Beard Cross & Webster stationed principally at Woodbridge engaged in frontier parties guarding the lines & protecting the property of the citizens. He recollects during this time of marching through the snow thick & freezing on night at Mary's Star site on Mops Brook all night — the enemy lying on the opposite shore & within halting distance. In the summer of 1779 was ordered out served two months under Captain Lufkin employed in similar service at the same station & for other months which he cannot specify In the summer of 1780 he was ordered out served one month & remained out five months under Captain Billy Manning Bush Deane Gehring like Major Edgar afterwards Genl. Edgar during which he marched towards Springfield but did not reach the latter but encountered the enemy at Elizabeth Town & was engaged in a severe skirmish with violent fire & bayonet his ammunition & that his shoulder in consequence was all black the next day & he continued

his service as a private until the close of the war at the place where the officers in his original declaration set forth I was engaged in scouting parties late alarms Further services not set forth in the above declaration which cannot now move particularly set forth the New Jersey claims of justice from which cited this John B. Field 18 th day of June 1832 before me Peter P. Runyon } Justice of the Peace }
I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common pleas of the County of Middlesex New Jersey do hereby cer- tify that Peter P. Runyon is one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County duly commissioned and sworn & that the signature to the within declaration purporting to be his signature is his own proper hand writing - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto to set my hand & affixed my seal of office this eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
N Booraem Clerk

Application of John B. Field for a pension —
87151
certificate to be sent to James J. Nevins M c Burns. N Jersey

in open court the 24 th day of August A.D. 1832
Wm B. Manning
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above applicant was a soldier of the revolution & served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that R. H. Rodgers who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman and resident in the county of Somerset & that Wm B. Manning who has also signed the same resides in the county of Middlesex & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
September 14. 1832.
N. Woodruff
Thos. Hance
B. Ford
Judges
I, Ferdinand S. Van Andel clerk of the county of  the inferior court of common Pleas in & for the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of John B. Field for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court the fourteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
F. S. Van Andel Clerk